Membership

SSAT membership is available to schools worldwide, in all phases of education. Membership gives every member of school staff access to all member benefits, from headteachers to data managers and all in between.

SSAT Masterclass: Astronaut Leadership will be led by six times astronaut Dr Mike Foale (CBE) and Chris Barber, founder of International Space School Education Trust (ISSET). You will discover what it takes to lead in space and how those practices can be applied in your own leadership.

If you’re an executive headteacher or considering executive headship you need to be fully prepared for the opportunities, challenges and responsibilities the role brings. At SSAT, we’ve been equipping leaders for the challenges and opportunities of executive headship for over a decade.

Focusing on the transition from middle leadership to senior leadership. This programme will cultivate the participant’s mindset shift to whole school thinking and adopt the skills to manage complex teams and competing priorities while ensuring they keep students at the centre of what they do.

SSAT School Improvement

Where are you on your journey to becoming a great school? At SSAT, we know teachers and leaders in every school are striving to overcome different challenges to deliver a world class learning experience for the children they serve. We offer flexible in-school support, training and coaching in all areas of school improvement including self-evaluation, leadership effectiveness, high-quality teaching and learning, accountability and data best practice and principled curriculum design.

Our solutions and expertise

All of our education experts and consultants are highly experienced as senior leaders or advisers with expertise in primary, secondary, post-16 and special education. Specialist areas include leadership and management, accountability, teaching and learning and curriculum. We can work with you to identify areas that require focus and prioritisation, building a bespoke consultancy package or intervention to match your specific needs.

Whether you’re a classroom practitioner with leadership potential, a senior leader aspiring to headship, or a CEO who wants to develop their expertise, our leadership expertise will help you expand your career opportunities and provide you with the skills and mindsets to lead your school to excellence. Our approach to teaching and learningimprovement encourages collaboration and shaping language, practices and habits across your school to help secure the best outcomes for children. Our accountability and dataknowledge will help you to ensure that you’re always aware of your key requirements and measures, and always prepared for inspection. And in a system where principled curriculum design is more important than ever, our curriculum consultancy will help your teachers and leaders design and deliver a curriculum that is personalised for each and every child.

Melanie Davies, Senior Lead Practitioner, Newmarket Academy, shows how the lead practitioner role has helped to move her school from special measures to good, and to make increasingly valuable contributions to the MAT.

… with outstanding leadership, said Ofsted. Stuart Smith, principal of Hastings Academy, an 11-16 school in the University of Brighton Academies Trust, gives some highlights of their successful approach to school improvement.

SSAT Coaching

Develop skills and proficiency and empower the teachers and leaders in your school with SSAT’s one-to-one coaching service. Coaching will give you an additional new approach to driving improvement, securing the best possible outcomes for your students. Whatever your context or phase of education, we will work with you to establish your specific requirements and scope. Delivered in-school with you or your selected members of staff, your SSAT Coach will provide a series of flexible one-to-one sessions designed to focus solely on your priorities and unlock you and your staff’s potential.

In-school training

Bespoke inset days

We can help you to prioritise, plan and deliver inset days for maximum impact and value. Choose from our range of CPD options and areas of expertise, including our ready-to-deliver in-school training options below.

SSAT Teaching and Learning Improvement Programme

The SSAT Teaching and Learning Improvement programme will help you and your staff build the foundations for improvement and provide the inspiration required to achieve your goals. Timed flexibly to suit your school’s needs but ideally phased over the course of approximately one term, we will work with you through this intensive programme to identify your strengths and priorities to help raise the standard of teaching and learning across your school.

SSAT Professional development modules

Get the most out of your PD days and twilight sessions with our flexible training modules. With modules covering teaching and learning, leadership and curriculum, you can ensure your training is not only of the highest quality and backed up by rigorous research, but is also built by you in line with your needs.

SSAT Non-Specialist Maths, Science and English

Tackle recruitment and retention issues in your school and develop your NQTs and teachers of other subjects into highly skilled non-specialist maths, science and English teachers. This in-school training will focus on your teachers’ subject and pedagogy knowledge to enable them to teach with confidence, produce inspiring and engaging learning activities and make accurate assessments of student progress.

SSAT Governance training

Enhance the expertise of your governors and help to increase understanding of their specific responsibilities. This training is delivered in your school to match your unique priorities, and will help your governors to stay up to date with the key educational issues on the horizon, further understand school performance tracking and ensure you’re always Ofsted-ready.